Tag: Oceanography

ESSIC researchers present at American Meteorological Society conference

January 24, 2018

ESSIC was a visible participant at the 98^th annual American Meteorological Society’s conference in early January in Austin, Texas. Center researchers and visiting ESSIC scientists participated in the following activities at the meeting: Talks:

Melissa Kenney – Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks
Ralph Ferraro – In-Orbit

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Brown presents on Fisheries Monitoring Workgroup

January 24, 2018

ESSIC visiting research scientist Christopher Brown presented the Fisheries Monitoring Workgroup (FMW) progress report at the Cooperative Hypoxia Assessment and Monitoring Program (CHAMP) Workshop. Brown co-leads the FWM, which produces fisheries surveys and serves as an advisory group for fishery management. The CHAMP workshop was held in early January at Mississippi State University….

ESSIC researchers present at American Geophysical Union meeting

January 2, 2018

ESSIC researchers Scott Rudlosky, Korak Saha, James Reagan, Alexey Mishonov and Sinead Farrell presented at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans. The annual meeting held in December is “the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world,” according to the AGU website. …

Smail organizes symposium in the Caribbean about Sustainable Development Goals

December 15, 2017

ESSIC senior faculty specialist Emily Smail is organizing a symposium to educate Caribbean Small Island State policymakers and other stakeholders who are working to meet the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workshop is called “Implementing and Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean: The Role of the Ocean” and will be held Jan. 17-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The goal of the meeting is to identify existing and new …

Dr. Emily Smail

November 8, 2017

ESSIC senior faculty specialist Emily Smail entered graduate school with an interest in biology, expecting to earn her doctorate and then continue with research in the professional realm. It was at a conference during that period, however, that her path shifted.

“People were arguing with each other about whether anammox or denitrification was more important for the nitrogen balance and the oxygen minimum zone of Oman, and I just thought, ‘Oh wow, we’re really getting

Smith recognized for sea surface temperature advancement

November 1, 2017

ESSIC visiting research scientist Thomas Smith is one of nine NOAA employees who will be awarded the NESDIS Outstanding Science & Data Management Employees of the Year Award at the upcoming National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) end of year celebrations. The award honors these individuals “For creating and implementing a new method for forward-looking sea surface temperature (SST) bias correction that also connects to historical observations for …

ESSIC staff present at EUMETSAT conference in Rome

October 13, 2017

ESSIC staff presented at the annual Meteorological Satellite Conference hosted by EUMETSAT in Rome in early October. Research Professor & CICS-MD Director Hugo Berbery gave a presentation titled “Consistency Analysis of the Water Cycle from Recently-Derived Satellite Products.” Other ESSIC scientists presented on NOAA scientific results, including Xiaolei Zou, Narges Shahroudi, Lin Lin, Andrew Harris, Bin Zhang, Manik Bali and Likun Wang….

From College Park to Earth Orbit, UMD Scientists Improve Quality of Global Weather Satellite Data

January 17, 2017

“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes such constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R that launched in 2016, …

ESSIC Snow Prediction Pool, Winter 2016-17

December 7, 2016

With Thanksgiving and the strong 2015-16 El Niño event now behind us what does Old Man Winter have in-store for the DC-area for the winter of 2016-17, particularly with respect to snowfall? According to the web-site “Current Results,” the first DC-Area snowfall of winter does typically occur in the month of December, although 1 in 4 winters see no December snows at all. Similarly, 1 in 4 December’s will receive at least 2.5” of snow and in …

ESSIC Researchers Attend Precipitation Workshop in Italy

October 3, 2016

ESSIC researchers and visiting scientists including Ralph Ferraro, Vivianna Mangionni, Bob Adler, Huan Meng, Nia-Yu Wang and Chris Kidd, travel to Bologna, Italy this month to take part in a joint workshop of the International Precipitation Working Group and the International Workshop on Space-based Snowfall Measurement. The researchers will be attending different sessions featuring scientists discussing algorithms, validation, climate, meteorology, oceanography and hydrology, and science …